From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism. As if it wasn't already obvious earlier, they have now thrown out 250 people mostly working on technical stuff such as their rendering engine or browser security. I suspect this is preparation for ceding control of the web browsing ecosystem to Google soon (as predicted in Mozilla - Devil Incarnate, they were always controlled opposition). I doubt any Firefox based browsers will survive this apocalypse, to be honest.
We’re obsessed with protecting your privacy. That’s why we’ve made Waterfox Private Browsing more powerful than the others., when in fact Waterfox does nothing whatsoever to protect it and actually spies on you almost as much as Firefox (archive) (it made 109 unsolicited requests upon my run of it). The
more powerful private browsingmode is a sham as well - anyone caring about their privacy will not rely on this but install essential privacy addons, so his deceptive claims are designed to lure in newbies only. This browser is completely dependent on Firefox, has its shitty UI and all the other flaws and does not even bother to remove much of the spyware. It's also run by a single developer (who is also a liar and hates privacy as proven above) so you don't know how long it will keep going. There are some positives, however - Waterfox is the only browser out there to support both XUL and WebExtensions, as well as NPAPI plugins. Still, due to all the other issues, this browser should be ignored. UPDATE FEBRUARY 2020: yet another reason to avoid Waterfox - it's been sold to an advertising company(archive), the same one that claimed StartPage.
A BROWSER SECURING YOUR PRIVACY. THAT’S IT, it actually fulfills the claim aside from a few spyware issues still left in. Specifically, your
privateIridium Browser will make a connection to Big G every 30 minutes to download their Safe Browsing database - what a joke. The devs have reacted dismissingly(archive) to the issue, plus have sneakily added more recent spyware(archive) - so I don't think they're to be trusted. Iridium has a hasn't been updated in a long time (it's August 2020, but the last release is from April based on Chromium 81 - compared to Ungoogled-Chromium's 84). There's no AppImage or portable build, making installation a bigger problem. This was my browser of choice for a long time (until I found the one below), but it doesn't do anything aside from disabling automatic connections - and not even all of them, at that. If you want a private Chrome based browser, this one is a much better choice:
Brave Rewardsprogram with which you can earn their
Basic Attention Tokensin exchange for watching ads (displayed as system notifications). Here's the catch: to pay out their BATshit tokens, you need an account on Uphold, whose Privacy Policy states this:
To verify your identity, we collect your name, address, phone, email, and other similar information. We may also require you to provide additional Personal Data for verification purposes, including your date of birth, taxpayer or government identification number, or a copy of your government-issued identification
We may obtain information from affiliated and non-affiliated third parties, such as credit bureaus, identity verification services, and other screening services to verify that you are eligible to use our Services, and will associate that information with the information we collected from you.
Uphold uses Veriff to verify your identity by determining whether a selfie you take matches the photo in your government-issued identification. Veriff’s facial recognition technology collects information from your photos that may include biometric data, and when you provide your selfie, you will be asked to agree that Veriff may process biometric data and other data (including special categories of data) from the photos you submit and share it with Uphold. Automated processes may be used to make a verification decision.
You’ll earn 70% of the ad revenue that we receive from advertisers.This is portrayed as a way of revolutionizing the Internet ad industry -
the middlemen and platform operators capture most of today’s ad revenue, while creating malware distribution and ad fraud opportunities. Brave Rewards upends this broken system and provides a new way forward for creator support.However, the real revolution will happen when the whole ad business model is dead and buried, or even better - when content creators don't need to worry about 'earning a living' because the capitalist monster has been slain or at least put on a leash. For now, you can just support the sites you like directly with Bitcoin, anonymously and on your own terms. All you need is a wallet and a person you want to donate to (I have an address at the top of the page ^_^). Anyway, at the beginning I was way too forgiving for Slave (certainly nothing
Braveabout it) Browser - let it rot along with all the scams they're pulling.
Now with a built-in ad blocker, battery saver and free VPN.Opera heavily spies on you(archive), including on your whole browsing history. Integrated by default with spyware platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp (owned by FB), and Telegram (apparently insecure according to the cryptographers). The VPN is very likely a Chinese honeypot and uMatrix outclasses all adblockers. Though it has some nice features like mouse gestures and automatic currency conversion, there's not much reason to use nuOpera over the other Chrome forks. Avoid.
When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message.
First off, WebRTC is functional and included in the platform code, but it is not built or included in the browser because the user base as a whole voted against it with a vast majority. This underlines one key statement about the Pale Moon browser: user involvement.Mozilla, on the other hand, completely ignores user feedback while locking the bugzilla tickets and throwing you a barrage of insults.
economic damageto websites. But actually, it's the ads and trackers that are causing human damage(archive) and if extensions such as AdNauseam help kill the 'economy' based on them, they should be praised instead of banned. Re-enabling AdNauseam requires fiddling with about:config.
deviating from official configuration- something the PM devs hate. They also hardcode compiler parameters, especially with libvpx to use specific opcodes instead of using whatever the user or operating system sets ${CFLAGS}/${CXXFLAGS} to, breaking portability with different CPUs and operating systems.
AAA games that have heavy assets,
VR and augmented realityand
Live video augmentationonto web browsers. Talk about scope creep! It pretty much turns your web browser into another operating system since it's literally assembly to which you can compile other languages and run all kinds of 'apps'. Of course, you can imagine all the new security vulnerabilities coming along with that. And just a year ago it was a not recommended technology(archive)..
obsessive packrat tendancies.and Moonchild followed with
hoarding addiction. Now contrast that attitude with the quotes on their main page -
Your browser, Your wayor
offering full customization. Doesn't this sound familiar?